Monday, May 3, 2010

How true this is - You Know You're a Zimbo if:

Ø You can still remember Sally Donaldson's voice.
Ø You failed your driver's licence first time.

Ø You saw 'Grease' more than three times.

Ø You still wear vellies without socks.

Ø You miss the smell of rain on a hot, tar road.

Ø You miss Christmas by the pool...

Ø You horrify people by eating raw, dried meat.

Ø You horrify other people by cooking boerewors 'to death'.

Ø You coveted a Raleigh 'chopper' bicycle.

Ø You got a 'Rebel' instead of a 'chopper'.

Ø You still secretly think that day scholars were pampered mommies boys.

Ø You took driving lessons in an Anne Hunter Anglia in Bulawayo .

Ø You still own some Spingbok Hits LP's.

Ø You still pee on the lawn at night.

Ø You carved your name on a famous landmark in Zim.

Ø You chatted up a farmer's daughter at a Country Club get together - with one eye on her Dad.

Ø You did wheelies on the Enterprise Road outside Gremlin's
Ø You almost lost the family jewels on the rock slide at Mermaid's Pool

Ø You spat from a window on the top floor at Monomotapa onto the Pool deck and ducked your head in quick.

Ø You can still sing 'Ag pleeez Daddy'.

Ø You actually miss the housebrick we were assured WAS bread.

Ø You played 'Bezant' at midnight, full of Castle, and ended up in a rockery.

Ø You whinged to the waiter at Caribbea Bay at the outrageous price of their beers during the Tigerfish Competition.

Ø You injected Cane spirit into a pocket of oranges to beat the booze ban at the Rugby at the Police grounds.

Ø You promised faithfully to meet the 'gang' at precisely noon 10/15/20 years 'from now' for a reunion, and haven't heard from them since.

Ø You still refer to toilet paper as 'bog roll'.

Ø You got a speeding ticket trying to make the border by 6 PM.

Ø Your forearms and the areas between you lower thighs and mid calf are irredeemably burned brown by the sun.

Ø You once owned an 8 track car tape player!!!

Ø You still own a record player and can pull out the vinyls when need be!

Ø You eat cuts of meat today that were ration meat in the old days.

Ø You have given up looking for a good meat pie.

Ø You had a domestic worker called Sixpence.

Ø You miss the smell of red stoep polish.

Ø You bore or frighten your children with harrowing tales of your deprived upbringing in the days when TV started at 17H00 and kids were expected to ride push bikes to school...

Ø You have graduated to more sophisticated food than chicken in a basket at a restaurant!

Ø You still butter bread by holding the slice in your hand... No Way!!

Ø You wish you'd had the presence of mind to keep mum's morrie minor

Ø You ate supper in Vila da Manhica, the Vila Perry or Guido's on occasions.

Ø You can remember the beer adverts on the tin trays the hotel waiters used...

Ø You can remember thinking that Bengal Juice was OK.

Ø You still believe it's wrong to use bad language in mixed company

Ø You still think of traffic lights as robots

Ø You know the words to more than two ABBA songs

Ø You HATE washing your car and mowing your lawn. Ironing is still something other people do

Ø You didn't see 'Are You Being Served' and other British comedies until 1980

Ø You still find it hard to throw things away when they could be Fixed

Ø You went to a school that taught real subjects like grammar and history

Ø You went to a school where instead of being 'counselled', unruly students were beaten - and it worked!

Ø You complained to your father that you were disciplined at school - only to find he thought it was a good idea.

Ø You used to call your parents' friends 'Uncle' and 'Aunty'

Ø You used to believe that in England and the USA they must be so much better at everything than we were - until you visited those countries and found they were inhabited by ordinary people who lived ordinary lives

Ø You have driven on a strip road

Ø You long for that soft morning glow that brightens the sky between 6am- 8am.